Method of making tiepin latching member

ABSTRACT

A method for making a releasably attachable tiepin is provided along with a method of tying a tie therewith. A tie is wrapped around a collar and its ends crossed, and one end of the tie looped over the front and up through the cross-loop and held in place adjacent to the loop by passing a pin through edges of the tie to lock it in place without a complete knot. The tie holding pin includes an elongated pin having an ornament on one end and a removably attachable ornament for attaching to the other end of the pin. The removable ornament is formed with a plastic insert therein having an aperture therethrough for frictionally engaging the pointed end of the pin. A metal point guide is placed over the plastic insert and has curved surfaces to direct the point into the aperture of the plastic insert. The edges of the ornament are rolled over to hold the plastic insert and plastic insert guide in the ornament.

United States Patent [191 Schaiewitz METHOD OF MAKING TIEPIN LATCHING MEMBER [76] Inventor: Daniel 0. Schaiewitz, 311 1 S.

Semoran Blvd., Orlando, Fla. 32807 [22] Filed: June 17, I974 [21] Appl. No: 480,056

[52] US. Cl. 29/160.6; 29/509; 24/49 P; 24/155 D; 24/155 SD; 63/20 [51] Int. Cl. 1321f 43/00; 823p 13/60 [58] Field of Search 29/l60.6, 509, 458, 527.2; 63/20, 2, 1 R, 1 A; 24/155 SD, 155 D, 49 R,

[4 1 July 8,1975

Switzerland 24/155 SD France 63/20 57] ABSTRACT A method for making a releasably attachable tiepin is provided along with a method of tying a tie therewith. A tie is wrapped around a collar and its ends crossed, and one end of the tie looped over the front and up through the cross-loop and held in place adjacent to the loop by passing a pin through edges of the tie to lock it in place without a complete knot. The tie holding pin includes an elongated pin having an ornament on one end and a removably attachable ornament for attaching to the other end of the pin. The removable ornament is formed with a plastic insert therein having an aperture therethrough for frictionally engaging the pointed end of the pin. A metal point guide is placed over the plastic insert and has curved surfaces to direct the point into the aperture of the plastic insert. The edges of the ornament are rolled over to hold the plastic insert and plastic insert guide in the ornament.

6 Claims, 8 Drawing Figures 1 METHOD OF MAKING TIEPIN LATCHING MEMBER BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a new method of tying a tie to provide a more attractive knot and a method of making an elongated tiepin for holding a tie in a preformed position.

In the past, a great many ties have been provided which are quickly and easily attached, or which are provided with more attractive knots that would normally be tied by the average individual getting dressed in the morning. These ties include snapon bowties and preknotted ties which are snapped around the collar, as well as a great variety of ways for attaching ties with readymade decorative knots.

The present invention provides a new method of tying a tie using an elongated tiepin of special design and which allows an individual to buy off-the-shelf ties and rapidly form the tie into an attractive knot with a minimum of time and effort. The present invention also provides a method of making a special elongated tiepin for use in tying the present tie, which tiepin may be manufactured inexpensively but provides an attractive ornament on either side of the pin, thereby providing only decorative ornaments to open view.

Typical prior art patents may be seen in US. Pat. No. 3,093,830 for a Reversible Combination Tie-Vest, and in Necktie US Pat. No. 2,l48,973 in which snaps are used to provide a decorative knot for a tie. US. Pat. No. 2,843,850 illustrates a Necktie Form utilizing a snap to hold the tie in position, while US. Pat. No. 2,673,983 shows a Necktie Clasp for holding a necktie in proper position. U.S. Pat. No. 3,405,408 shows a tiepin using a Velcro material to hold a tie in proper position, while US Pat. No. l,769,755 illustrates a Necktie with special snaps for holding the tie in place.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to neckties and to a special tiepin for assisting in tying an attractive knot of any desired type. The method of tying a tie in accor dance with the present invention includes wrapping a standard off-the-shelf tie around a collar, crossing one end of the tie over the other, and looping one end of the tie over the front and up through the loop formed by the crossing tie ends in a conventional manner. The top portion of the tie looped up through the crossing loop has its edges held towards each other while passing an elongated tiepin with a decorative head on one end through the edges to hold the tie in position adjacent the loop and then attaching a decorative end to the opposite end of the elongated tiepin to hold the tie in place to form a decorative tie knot.

The decorative tiepin has an elongated pin with an ornament on one end and a friction engaging ornament which is removably attached to the opposite end. The ornament for the opposite end may include an opening therein which has had a plastic insert inserted thereinto which plastic insert has an aperture running therethrough. A round. metal insert guide has an opening in the middle and is curved towards the middle opening, is placed over the plastic insert and the edges of the opening in the ornament is rolled over onto the insert guide. When a pin point is pushed against the insert guide it is directed into the aperture of the plastic insert, where it is frictionally engaged by the plastic as it is pushed into the insert. The removable ornament may also be made by beginning with a predetermined sleeve member having one end partially closed but with an attachment opening through the partially closed end. The sleeve is removable, held by a holding member attached to the partially closed end opening, then forming a glass or other settable, fluid, decorative material onto the sleeve. The plastic insert with aperture therein may then be inserted into the sleeve and the insert guide placed thereover and the edges of the sleeve rolled onto the insert guide. The plastic insert may also be inserted in a second sleeve which is threaded in the sleeve with the ornament placed thereon.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Other objects, features and advantages of this invention will be apparent from a study of the written description of the drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 illustrates an exploded perspective view of a tiepin used in the present methods;

FIG. 2 is a front plan view of a tie in the process of being tied in accordance with the present method;

FIG. 3 is a rear plan view of a completed knot in accordance with the present method;

FIG. 4 is an exploded view of a tiepin ornament;

FIG. 5 is a front sectional view of an assembled tiepin ornament;

FIG. 6 is an exploded view of a second embodiment of a tiepin ornament;

FIG. 7 is an exploded view of a tiepin ornament sleeve and holding arm; and

FIG. 8 is an exploded view of yet another embodiment of holding the plastic insert in an ornament sleeve.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED METHODS Referring now to the drawings, FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, a preferred method of tying a tie in accordance with the present invention is illustrated. FIG. I has a tiepin I0 having an elongated pointed member II with an ornament l2 fixedly attached to one end thereof and a removably attached ornament 13 adapted to be attached to the point end 14 of the elongated pin member I]. Generally, the ornaments l2 and 13 would be identical in appearance but the ornament 13 would have the means for removably holding itself to the pin 11 which, in the present case, would be a friction engaging member including a plastic insert inserted in the end 19 which would have an aperture passing therethrough. Since the plastic insert would be subject to damage by the point 14 of the pin portion 11 by missing the small aperture in the insert, a metallic pin guide is inserted thereover and the edge 15 of the ornament 13 is rolled over to hold the plastic insert and insert guide into the ornament 13, as will be described in more detail in connection with FIGS. 4 through 7. FIG. 2 illustrates a tie 16 wrapped in a conventional manner such as by crossing the tie ends and looping one end over the front and up through the crossed loop and down the front. The tie is wrapped around the collar with the narrow portion 17 and the two ends crossed in a conventional fashion. The large end of the tie 18 is looped up over the front and up through the loop formed by the crossingof the ends. Tie portion 18 is seen looped over in FIG. 2 at which point the edges of the looped portion are pressed together and the pin 10 inserted through the two sides or edges of the portion 18 with the head 12 on one side and the pointed end l4 extending through the edge for engagement by the ornament 13 to hold the knot as illustrated in FIG. 3. The pin 10 always maintains the tie 16 with a neat locking shape which can be rapidly and quickly tied from a conven tional tie. The knot 21 is in a generally triangular shape formed by portion 18 being wrapped over the loop portions of 17 and the ornaments 12 and 13 of the tiepin 10 being exposed, which tiepins can be changed on a regular basis to provide variation in addition to the variation of utilizing different ties.

FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate one method of manufacturing the ornament 13 of the tiepin in which the pointed end 14 of the elongated pin portion ll is illustrated at one end of FIG. 4 with the ornament 13 at the opposite end of the exploded view with a portion cut away to show an opening 22 which has a bottom 23 with a small hole 24 extending into the bottom 23. A cylindrical plastic insert 25 has an aperture 26 passing therethrough which has been sized to fit a predetermined pin I1 and an insert guide 27 has an opening 28 passing :herethrough and is curved so as to allow the point 14 3f the pin 11 to slide along the curved surface into the )pening 28 and thereby guide it into the opening 26 of :he plastic insert 25 of the assembled ornament 13. The assembly of the ornament portion 13 provides for in- ;erting the plastic insert 25 into the opening 22 of the )rnament l3 and inserting the ornament guide 27 into lhfi same opening over the plastic insert 25. The edges of the opening 23 of the ornament 13 are then rolled n a conventional roll technique over the edges of the nsert guide 27 as illustrated in FIG. 5 to hold the insert and guide 27 into the ornament 13 as illustrated in [(3. 5. Thus, the method involves producing an ornanent 13 with an opening 22 therein, inserting the plasic insert with an opening therethrough, inserting an inert guide with an opening therethrough into the ornanent member 13 and rolling the edge of the opening 22 if ornament 13 onto the insert.

FIGS. 6 and 7 illustrate a slightly modified embodinent in which a glass or other settable fluid material 30 orms the ornament tip. A specially built sleeve 31 fits nto the glass ornament 30 which sleeve has an opening l2 passing thereinto with the opposite end 33 being iartially closed and having a threaded opening passing herethrough. The plastic insert 34 with an opening 35 s simliar to plastic insert 25, as is an insert guide mem- Ier 36 with opening 37 similar to insert guide 27. The ointed member 14 of the pin 11 is the same in all of he embodiments. The method of making the ornament ortion involves utilizing an arm 38 with a threaded nd 40 which is inserted into the specially made metalc sleeve 31 and threaded into the sleeve holes 41 of he partially closed end 33. The holding member 31 hen has the glass ornament 30 molded or formed diectly thereupon at which point the inserting handle 38 i unthreaded from the sleeve 31 and the plastic insert 4 is inserted into the sleeve 31 open end and plastic isert guide 36 is inserted thereover into the sleeve 31 nd the edges 42 of the opening 32 of the sleeve 31 is alled over in a conventional manner and in the same tanner as the method of FIGS. 4 and 5, to seal the lastic insert 34 with the insert guide 36 thereover. This iethod advantageously leaves the opening 41 so that re tip 14 can pass thereinto if pushed too far into the pening 35 of the plastic insert 34 and will stop the pin 1 without damaging the point 14. Similarly, the drilled out portion 24 in the bottom 23 of ornament 13 of FIG. 4 will accomplish the same result by letting the tip 14 of the pin 11 ease into the narrow opening before engaging the angled surfaces of the point 14 to prevent damage to the point.

In FIG. 8, the method in accordance with FIGS. 6 and 7 is modified to the extent that a second insert has an open end 5] for the plastic insert 34 with opening 35 therethrough to be inserted. The sleeve 50 has a parabolic end portion 52 with an opening 53 and threaded portion 54. Once the plastic insert 34 is inserted in sleeve 50, sleeve 50 is threaded into sleeve 31 opening 32 having ornament 30 formed therein.

It should be clear at this point that a new method of tying a tie along with method for manufacturing a tiepin has been provided with several variations illustrated. However, this invention is not to be construed as limited to the particular forms disclosed herein since these are to be regarded as illustrative rather than restrictive.

I claim:

1. The method of making a decorative latching member comprising the steps of:

a. making a decorative member having an opening in one end thereof;

b. placing a plastic insert having an aperture therein into the opening of said decorative member;

c. placing an insert guide having angled surfaces and a center opening therethrough into said opening in said decorative member over said plastic insert; and rolling the edges of said opening in said decorative member onto said insert guide to hold said insert guide and plastic insert in said decorative member whereby a pin of predetermined size may be guided into said aperture in said plastic insert by said insert guide and frictionally held by said plastic insert.

2. The method in accordance with claim 1 in which said decorative member having an opening in one end thereof includes forming a smaller opening in the bottom of said opening in one end of said decorative member for engaging the end of a pin inserted through said plastic insert without damaging the point of said pin.

3. A method of making a decorative jewelry latching member comprising the steps of:

a. making a sleeve having one end partially closed with means for removably attaching a holding arm;

b. removably attaching a holding arm through said sleeve to said partially closed end;

c. molding a settable decorative material onto said sleeve;

d. removing said removable attached holding arm from said sleeve;

e. inserting a plastic insert having an opening therein into said sleeve; and

f. sealing said plastic insert having an opening therein into said sleeve whereby inserting a pin of predetermined size into said opening in said plastic insert will frictionally engage and removably hold said pin thereto.

4. The method in accordance with claim 3 including the step of inserting a metal guide having an opening therethrough into said sleeve following the inserting of said plastic insert therein and sealing the said insert guide therein for guiding the point of said pin into the aperture of said plastic insert.

6 the step of inserting a plastic insert includes inserting said plastic insert into a second sleeve and threading said second sleeve into the first sleeve having decorative material molded thereon to thereby seal said plastic insert in said first and second sleeves. 

1. THE METHOD OF MAKING A DECORATIVE LTCHING MEMBER COMPRISING THE STEPS OF: A. MAKING A DECORATIVE MEMBER HAVING AN OPENING IN ONE END THEREOF, B. PLACING A PLASTIC INSERT HAVING AN APERTURE THEREIN INTO THE OPENING OF SAID DECORATIVE MEMBER, C. PLACING AN INSERT GUIDE HAVING ANGLED SURFACES AND A CENTER OPENING THERETHROUGH INTO SAID OPENING IN SAID DECORATIVE MEMBER OVER SAID PLASTIC INSERT AND D. ROLLING THE EDGES OF SAID OPENING IN SAID DECORATIVE MEMBER ONTO SAID INSERT GUIDE TO HOLD SAID INSERT GUIDE AND PLASTIC INSERT IN SAID DECORATIVE MEMBER WHEREBY A PIN OF PREDETERMINED SIMAY BE GUIDE INTO SAID APERTURE IN SAID PLASTIC INSERT BY SAID GUIDE AND FRICTIONALLY HELD BY SAID PLASTIC INSERT.
 2. The method in accordance with claim 1 in which said decorative member having an opening in one end thereof includes forming a smaller opening in the bottom of said opening in one end of said decorative member for engaging the end of a pin inserted through said plastic insert without damaging the point of said pin.
 3. A METHOD OF MAKING A DECORATIVE JEWELRY LATCHING MEMBER COMPRISING THE STEPS OF: A. MAKING A SLEEVE HAVING ONE END PARTIALLY CLOSED WITH MEANS FOR REMOVABLY ATTACHING A HOLD ARM,
 4. The method in accordance with claim 3 including the step of inserting a metal guide having an opening therethrough into said sleeve following the inserting of said plastic insert therein and sealing the said insert guide therein for guiding the point of said pin into the aperture of said plastic insert.
 5. The method in accordance with claim 4 in which the step of sealing said plastic insert guide includes rolling the edges of the open end of said sleeve over onto said guide thereby sealing said plastic insert guide and said plastic insert into said sleeve.
 6. The method in accordance with claim 3 in which the step of inserting a plastic insert includes inserting said plastic insert into a second sleeve and threading said second sleeve into the first sleeve having decorative material molded thereon to thereby seal said plastic insert in said first and second sleeves. 